> There are no plans, that I am aware of, for adding ANY UI to FT.
>
> We already have platform-centric calls (ftmac.c, ftwin.c,
etc.)
> which include support for reading platform installed fonts. It is
> transparent to the clients, since it happens inside of "overridden"
> versions of FT_New_Face().
Yes, but these are calls to hide the underlying OS, or to read a
certain file format. That's not what I mean. These calls connect FT2
to the layer below it, the host OS'es file system.
I am under the impression that a variant of FT_New_Face() should be
created that has as it's input user-level things such as font name,
bold-ness, etc to let a user select a font based on these
characteristics, and that this call should be part of the current FT2
library.